Jimmy Connors' pre-match meal (per Tennis Magazine): 2 hamburgers and 3 glasses of Coca Cola. All it did was propel (so to speak) him to the highest number of singles titles of any male in the open era and get him to a USO semi at age 39. Coke is it!!

Jimmy Connors' pre-match meal (per Tennis Magazine): 2 hamburgers and 3 glasses of Coca Cola. All it did was propel (so to speak) him to the highest number of singles titles of any male in the open era and get him to a USO semi at age 39. Coke is it!!

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Different world...everyone did that.

And Lendl started obliterating both Connors and McEnroe, who were not fitness freaks, when he got his act together. Need to stay in proper shape for this level of tennis now.

it would give him some caffiene and carbs for energy , hardly different from drinking a powerade

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Yeah, there's really nothing wrong with this. Oftentimes you can see cyclists doing the same thing during a race. It's not like they're sitting around drinking 5 cans of soda with a bag of potato chips or something...

Yeah, there's really nothing wrong with this. Oftentimes you can see cyclists doing the same thing during a race. It's not like they're sitting around drinking 5 cans of soda with a bag of potato chips or something...

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glad there is one smart person on here i know ironman tri atheletes and they can drink up to 2 liters of coke or pepsi on the bike

I imagine Monfils knows what works for his body by this point. The guy is a top athlete and has been for years. If Coke gave him cramps or was otherwise seriously detrimental to his performance, I think he'd be aware of it by now.

Different things work for different people... there are reasons why certain things are recommended and others discouraged, but at the individual level, those rules don't always hold true.

I imagine Monfils knows what works for his body by this point. The guy is a top athlete and has been for years. If Coke gave him cramps or was otherwise seriously detrimental to his performance, I think he'd be aware of it by now.

Different things work for different people... there are reasons why certain things are recommended and others discouraged, but at the individual level, those rules don't always hold true.

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Did you see what he looked like at the end of the match? What Simon looked like?

That would be my guess. Years ago I was at a minor-league baseball game, and the stadium was designed in such a way that fans could lean over and talk to the pitchers as they warmed up in the bullpen. One of the players had gotten himself a cup of coffee(!) and I was teasing him about why wasn't he drinking Gatorade or some other sports drink. His answer: the caffiene "enhances my performance."

Coke is actually as good as most so-called sports drinks when diluted down - which Monfils may have done. A drink doesn't need to have a sportsy name or a picture of a sweating athlete on it to be legit for use during sports.

During the 80s many tennis players drank watered down coke as their in-game drink. I grew up doing it and, when short on a better alternative, still do sometimes.